... 's 3narrative of Roman characters .A.C.Bradley does not consider it the real tragedy because he thinks that it lacks certain convention of tragedy. It may fall between tragedy and history .However T.S Coleridge rates it one the finest history play as he says: 'Of all Shakspeare's historical plays, Antony and Cleopatra is by far the most wonderful. There is not one in ... middle class and Egypt was sick and backwards. Their moral standard was also comparatively very poor as Shakespeare has highlighted all these short comings of the Egyptian society in the character of Cleopatra. The ...

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